Director General

Freelance writer and film and television researcher (for hire). He has contributed to a number of books and websites about British archive television and cinema as well as recent television series including work for Moviemail, Frame Rated and Arrow Video. Publications include I.B Tauris's 'Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour - A Critical Celebration of the Matt Smith and Steven Moffat Era' (2013) and 'Doctor Who - The Pandorica Opens' (2010).

Missing your Doctor Who fix now that the current series has finished and the Ponds have departed?

Not to worry, Cathode Ray Tube has two Doctor Who books looking for a Time Lord-loving owner. Our latest competition will give away to one lucky winner one copy each of J.T. Colgan's Dark Horizons novel and graphic novel The Dalek Project, by Justin Richards and Mike Collins, courtesy of BBC Books and Ebury Publishing. That should help with the withdrawal symptoms.

Dark HorizonsJ.T. Colgan

A thrilling new adventure starring the Doctor, as played by Matt Smith.

"Now, you may or may not have noticed, but we appear to be on fire..."

On a windswept Northern shore, at the very tip of what will one day become Scotland, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. Then the burning comes. They cannot run from it. Water will not stop it. It consumes everything in its path - yet the burned still speak.

The Doctor is just looking for a game on the famous Lewis chess set. Instead he encounters a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand. They have no weapons, no strategy and no protection against a fire sent to engulf them all.

Add in some marauding Vikings with very bad timing, a kidnapped princess with a secret of her own and a TARDIS that seems to have developed an inexplicable fear of water, and they all have a battle on their hands. The islanders must take on a ruthless alien force in a world without technology; without communications; without tea that isn't made out of bark. Still at least they have the Doctor on their side... Don't they?

Published by BBC Books, 7 July 2012

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The Dalek ProjectJustin Richards & Mike Collins

A stunning new graphic novel, featuring the Doctor as played by Matt Smith in an exciting adventure with the Daleks.

1917. It's the height of the Great War and Hellcombe Hall is a house
full of mystery: locked doors, forbidden rooms, dustsheets covering
guilty secrets, and ghostly noises frightening the servants. Most mysterious of all, the drawing-room seems to open directly onto a muddy, corpse-filled trench on the Western Front...

Arriving at this stately home, the Doctor meets Lord Hellcombe,
an armaments manufacturer who has a new secret weapon he believes will
win the war: he calls it ‘the Dalek’. Soon, the Doctor and his new friends are in a race against time
to prevent the entire Western Front from becoming part of the Dalek
Project!

Published by BBC Books, 6 September 2012

COMPETITIONNOW CLOSED

Cathode Ray Tube has one copy each of Dark Horizons and The Dalek Project to give away to one winner courtesy of BBC Books and Ebury Publishing. Simply
answer the question below and submit your entry via email.

- This competition is open to residents of the UK only but not to
employees of BBC Books and Ebury Publishing or their
agents.

- Entries must be received by midnight GMT on Monday 8th October 2012

- This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer and no cash alternative is available.

- No responsibility will be accepted for delayed, mislaid, lost or damaged entries whether due to system error or otherwise.

- Only one entry per visitor per day. No multiple entries allowed.

- The winner will be the first entry with the correct answer drawn at random.

- The winner will be contacted by email. The books will be
posted one week after the competition closes (unless delayed by postal strikes).

- The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

- Entrants are deemed to accept and be bound by these rules and
entries that are not in accordance with the rules will be disqualified.

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any other requirements set out on this website.

Entry is via email to frank_c_collins@hotmail.com.
No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received, only
partially received or delayed for whatever reason. Paper entries are not
valid.

Question: In which episode did the Doctor declare "I wear a stetson now, stetsons are cool"?

Email your answer to the question above, with your name and address, and we'll enter you into the prize draw. Good luck!

"Frank Collins has produced a book that is fiercely idiosyncratic, displays a wide-ranging intellect the size of a planet, but which is also endearingly open and inclusive in its desire to share its expansive knowledge..." 4/5- Horrorview.com